Improvement in drawing-boards



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VILLIAM B. O. PEABODY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWING-BOARDS.

Specification forming paxt of Letters Patent No. 16L9S2, dated April 13, 1875; application filed January 5, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. B. O. PEABODY, of Boston, Massachusetts, have invented a Drawing-Board, it being a device for stretchingpaper or canvas, for the use of artists and draftsmen, of which the following is a specilication:

This device consists of a frame, C, with an interior frame, D, hinged thereto. The interior frame is grooved, and a projection on .the exterior frame `corresponds to this groove E. Thepaper or canvas is laid on theinterior frame D when open, as in Fig. 1, so that when shut together the paper or canvas is pressed by the projection I ofthe exterior frame O into the groove E of the interior frame D, and level with the 'surface of the exterior frame, and, by means of catches, the interior frame is jirmly held in position. Theinterior frame is iitted with a removable board, H, which enables the artist to obtain a good hard surfa-ce for instrumental drawing, and the removal ofthe board affords facility for dampening the paper when it is desirable that the color should not. dry too quickly. On the upper surface of this device or frame O, measuring-scales are arranged on each side, as shown in Fig. 2, to facilitate the drawing of plans. I

I claiml. lhe open frames G D, hinged, and provided, respectively, with grooves E and projections I, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the frames O D,

W. B. O. PEABODY.

Witnesses:

J. E. HAsELTINE, .WALTER STARBUCK. 

